Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Lisboa, junho - setembro 2011
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2009
HORS SUJET portrait
video installation | 3 DVD, colour, sound

The antithesis in the installation’s title, HORS SUJET portrait (OUTSIDE THE SUBJECT portrait), intends to question the power of representation of the portrait.
In this hommage to Victorine Meurent, we look again into the diverse works by Edouard Manet in which Victorine has been the model to the painter: the far-famed “Olympia” or “Lunch on the Grass”, as many others...
The annoying enigma of Olympia’s glance, the nude and cold Olympia, the “monster of the banal love” ... Grisette or prostitute? Alive or dead? The woman sitting at lunch on the grass... Victorine prostitute, Victorine street singer, woman with the parrot, child with the pifaro, Victorine con la espada (with the sword), Victorine at the train station, Victorine’s portrait...
Debuted this year at Stenersen Museum in Oslo, as part of the international and currently on tour exhibition “Off the Beaten Path, Violence Women and Art”, HORS SUJET portrait was created in the process of a cinema workshop for women with life stories connected to prostitution.

“As part of the creative process of the installation HORS SUJET portrait, my working notes take the form of a visual notebook: the film is a moment of reflection I would like to share with you.
"The face of the other doesn't wait the intentionality of knowledge, the totalitarian vision, the understanding of the meaning of history, in order to be significant. I search for the Time of happening a face to face, a entre-nous alien to the intention or to the power of representation of the other which opposes to the forms of violence and annihilation of otherness.

2004/2009
VUE portraits
video installation | 3DVD, color, sound, 35min

The image of a window evoked by the words of the models overlaps with the image of their faces. The “windows” were filmed during the “Dançar o que é nosso” meeting in Lisbon, with performers from all over the world.

2006-2008
TIME FOR A PORTRAIT | gallery 1
video installation

The exhibit brings together a set of four installations produced between 2004 and 2007, a series of portraits dedicated to the universe of the Arts, built around the experience of the gaze and time: CHANT | REFLECTION| MOUVEMENT | VUE portraits.

MONTEMOR-O-NOVO
| PORTUGAL, O Espaço do Tempo, Convento da Saudação, Aug. 2008
VILA DO CONDE | PORTUGAL SOLAR Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Nov.-Dec. 2006
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2006
REFLECTION portraits
video installation | 2DVD, color, sound, 21min

A portrait of an actress conceived for the show SENSO, with Carlos Pimenta and Monica Calle, based on the text written by Camillo Boito and on the film by Luchino Visconti. The portrait was filmed at the La Fenice de Veneza Theatre, where Visconti directed the film’s unforgettable opening sequence.

2004/2006
MOUVEMENT portraits
video installation | monocanal version 1DVD, colour, sound, 19min
video installation | diptych version 2DVD, colour, sound, 19min

Ten ballerinas are portrayed immediately after an intense workout, introducing a reflection on the principle of movement.

2003/2004
CHANT portraits
video installation | 3DVD, color, sound, 60min

the songs
"Fino all'ultimo minuto", Piero Ciampi, 1961
"Oração ao tempo", Caetano Veloso, 1979
"Ie te vurria vasà ", Russo e Di Capua, 1900

60 minutes for a portrait in movement. Three faces, a long exposure time, an image-time saturated interval. At the beginning it is only frontality, the extension of a gaze over a long exposure time, between the time taken for a song and the time taken for a portrait.